Derwent Innovation
Patent search results you can trust
Answer your patent search questions with speed and precision
Derwent Innovation patent search software helps patent professionals make faster, more confident patentability, freedom-to-operate (FTO) and validity decisions.
 
            Increase your confidence in patent search results
With the unmatched combination of comprehensive global patent data, descriptive invention summaries, and AI-powered patent search, Derwent Innovation delivers more relevant, more comprehensive patent search results.
Spend less time reading and more time advising
Review patent search results quickly with titles and abstracts for 67m+ invention families that accurately describe the invention’s novelty, use and advantage.
Search the same patent prior art data used by 40+ global PTOs
Derwent Innovation is the only source for comprehensive global patent data and DWPI invention summaries used by 40+ global patent and trademark offices.
The right tools to save you time - from AI patent search to expert keyword search
Higher-confidence patentability and knock-out searches
Priority date and classification corrections and descriptive titles and abstracts that clearly state the invention’s novelty help you assess patentability with speed and confidence.
Efficient and effective global FTO analysis
Correlated patent litigation case data from 140+ jurisdictions and reliable legal status data for faster, more informed freedom-to-operate decisions (FTO).
Invalidity searches that deliver
Powerful patent search tools, manually-curated indexing and comprehensive global patent data help you find the right prior art when the stakes are high.
Why choose Derwent Innovation for patent prior art searching?
With comprehensive, high-quality data, expert-written invention summaries, AI search and advanced search modes, Derwent provides the answers you can trust and the productivity tools your team needs.
Comprehensive global patent data
Search confidently with enhanced full-text patent data from 76 jurisdictions and bibliographic data from 106 jurisdictions covering 161m+ patent publications.
 
        Invention summaries authored by subject matter experts
Clear descriptions of novelty, use and advantage significantly improve search results and help you quickly understand a patent’s claims.
 
        Correlated patent litigation data for 140+ jurisdictions
Quickly see which patents in your search results have been litigated in 140+ jurisdictions; see litigation history and details for each case.
 
        AI Search for fast, reliable patent search results
Using a large-language AI model trained on DWPI, AI Search delivers highly relevant results to help you save time making patentability and FTO decisions.
 
        An unparalleled combination of AI tools, human-authored summaries and enriched data you can trust
For faster, higher confidence patentability, FTO and validity decisions, Derwent Innovation provides reliable patent search results without the noise.
Unparalleled expert patent search capabilities
Powerful keyword and AI patent search, 300+ searchable fields and intuitive search management tools make it easy for you to create, combine and manage complex patent searches.
Global citations grouped by invention family
Obtain a comprehensive view of an invention’s origins and influence with global forward, backward, literature and examiner citations all gathered under the single DWPI invention family.
Extensive Scientific Literature from the Web of Science
Find relevant non-patent publications from over 13,500 journals evaluated by the Web of Science editorial team.
Find the right patent search results without the noise
Let’s explore how Derwent Innovation can help you make faster, more confident patentability, FTO and validity decisions with AI tools and enriched data you can trust
Derwent Innovation patent search software by the numbers
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See what users are saying about Derwent Innovation
What is important for us is to find a comprehensive view of patent information that supports strategic decision-making and Derwent is helping us in this mission.
Sakae Nakamura IP Corporate Research & Development, Asahi Kasei Corporation
I’ve tried other AI powered patent search tools, and Derwent AI Search is hands down the best. With other patent search tools, you often need to review up to 50 or even 200 results to find the most relevant records. With Derwent AI Search, the most relevant records are at the top of the list, which helps me save a lot of time when evaluating patentability.
Susan Johnson Patent Agent and IP Researcher, Boston Scientific
You can feel the difference in the data. It’s clean, complete and gives you confidence. When I’m preparing for a client meeting, I don’t want to second-guess the results, and with Derwent, I don’t have to.
Dr. Ilan Riess Patent Attorney, Ehrlich Group
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                                                When technologies collide: predicting litigation risk using patent transactions
While patent data is widely acknowledged to be a valuable source for evaluating technology trends, it’s value for competitive intelligence purposes is in many ways underappreciated. By understanding the relationships between technology convergence, patent transactions, and patent litigation, you’ll be able to better assess your risk, improve your protection and anticipate your competitors’ next moves...
FAQs
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DWPI is a curated patent database covering 127m+ patents from 60 jurisdictions. Patents are consistently summarized, indexed and categorized by invention by a team of 900 patent editors.
We correct, normalize and enhance patent records available in Derwent Innovation. With advanced data science, we’re able to fill in missing fields, such as assignee. We normalize inventor and assignee names. We correct common errors such as incorrect priority dates and classifications.
Derwent Innovation AI Search helps customers perform fast and accurate “first pass” prior art searches using natural language description or invention disclosure for patentability, freedom to operate (FTO) and knock-out searches, or to further validate Boolean searches.
 
                                                                             
                                                 
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                            